Quotes About Beauty

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.